Analysis Of The Film American Meat

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In the movie “American Meat” the writers discussed the difference between commodity farming and sustainable farming. The film does not give a balanced view between the two types of farming. The future of farming is sustainable farming. As seen in the movie, it is possible to sustain all of the American people while practicing sustainable farming methods. The movie takes a strong stance on sustainable farming, so much that one might be able to say that is the agenda of the movie. They mostly speak of a specific farm called Polyface Farms in Virginia. What they do there is they use the same plot of land for multiple animals. Each of them use it at a different time. They have a process called the Pigerator. It is not a huge big, scary process; it is simple. Cows are in the barn during the winter, and they make waste. When they take the cows out, they mix corn into the manure to ferment it. Later, when the pigs come in, the pigs dig looking for the fermented corn, thereby mixing the manure into usable “fertilizer”.(American Meat) They also …show more content…

They speak about how with organic farming there is no consistency, but there is no consistency in nature. An R-squared value is a statistical measurement of a correlation. It measures how much correlation there is between two things. Take humans for example, if there was consistency we would all look the same, but there is not and we all look different, hence why in natural biology, and for statistics, a R-squared value of 80 per cent is good enough. The value is a measure of how close each value is to a fitted line, confinement farmers probably get upwards of a 95 per cent R-squared value, but organic and grass fed probably get between 80 and 90 per cent, which is “nature’s R-squared value”. Basically what this states is the variability of the data, in this case weight and height, or how far apart each data point is from the line in a

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